Word: attempted
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...precisely that demand which University of Chicago philosopher Alan Bloom could not understand when he appeared at Harvard earlier this semester. The irony of his attack on relativism is that he encourages us to ignore morality. For him, every demand from a minority group is an attempt to seek power. He refuses to accept that it might be a request for compassion, and beyond that, a plea for self-assessment...
...drop-out-or-die ultimatums are an aggressive attempt to rectify a long- standing rebel problem. Although the F.M.L.N. has fought the 56,000-man Salvadoran armed forces to a stalemate during nine years of civil war, it has accumulated no sustained political influence. Now, two months before presidential elections, the insurgents have hit on a way to make their presence felt in nearly every town and village...
...harness. According to the three-page document, the government is "in favor of lifting -- under conditions of a national agreement -- restrictions on establishing trade unions." Among the conditions that the unions (read Solidarity) must meet: renouncing all foreign financial support -- including U.S. aid -- and vowing to suppress any attempt by its members to hold public demonstrations or marches. The statement proposes that the timetable for introducing trade-union pluralism should be reached at "round- table talks" that include the government, Solidarity leader Lech Walesa and other groups. Jaruzelski left little doubt that his new approach to Solidarity was motivated...
Vice President and General Counsel and Official Pointman and Union Candy Store Manager Daniel Steiner '54 takes on responsibility for approving tenure, selecting deans, greeting foreign diplomats and ingratiating himself with freshmen at Dean Moses' weekly teas. He denies that the additional responsibilities are an attempt to relieve President Bok's workload, explaining that he merely had to fill extra free time now that the anti-union drive is over...
Harvard Management Company dissolves after a bungled attempt to double the University's $4 billion endowment by spending it all on MegaBucks tickets. Money management efforts are turned over to Donald Trump in exchange for renaming two graduate schools, the Trump School of Business Ethics and the Ivana Trump School of Tasteful Design...